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On Fri, 02 Jan 2004 21:50:01 +0100, Sybrand Bakker
<gooiditweg_at_sybrandb.demon.nl> wrote:
>On Fri, 02 Jan 2004 20:14:03 GMT, Kenneth Koenraadt wrote:
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>>3) The system is so old that FK constraints were not available when
>>the system was implemented. AFAIK, FK's haven't always been available
>>in Oracle.
>
>Could be declared (but wheren't checked) in Oracle 6, were checked in
>Oracle 7.1 onwards. Oracle 7 was released in 1994. Oracle 6 was
>released in 1989. Heck do you really think there are people out there
>running Oracle 5?
>
Thanks for the clarification. Not many run Oracle5, but there
certainly are systems out there which were initiated in Oracle 5/6 and
which, though since upgraded to 8i+, still haven't taken advantage of
FK's and 1 M other new features introduced since ! I deal with one of
them app. once a week....
>
>--
>Sybrand Bakker, Senior Oracle DBA
Received on Fri Jan 02 2004 - 15:25:50 CST
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